Sandhamnsregattan Classic, Sandhamn, Sweden, KSSS, the Royal Swedish Yacht Club

Classic yachts entering any of these regattas will be part of the Baltic Classic Master Cup 2017. The cup fee is included in the registration fees.

A classic yacht is a yacht in solid wood or riveted steel built or designed 1970 and earlier.

The yacht that receives most points will be the winner.

A yacht has to participate in a minimum of two regattas in two countries to be included in the final cup results.

The Finnish regattas are raced according to FinLYS and the Swedish according to SRS. A yacht racing outside its home country will be issued a measurment certificate free of charge from the national sail association of the regatta country.

Two different kinds of points will be rewarded; racing points and regatta points.

Racing points

The number of racing points a yacht will receive is dependent on the number of participating yachts. If there are 30 yachts in a regatta the winner will receive 30 points, the second 29 and so on. The last yacht completing the regatta receives 1 point.

The three best regatta results out of four will be counted in the final results. If a yacht participates in all four regattas, the racing points from the regatta where the yacht has received the lowest number of points will be discarded.

Regatta points

All yachts that have started in a race will receive 2 regatta points in addition to the racing points. The regatta points are awarded even if the yacht does not complete the race. No discards are done, so if a yacht participates in all four regattas it will receive 8 regatta points.

If yachts have the same score the one with most racing points will be the considered having the highest score.

The Cup and Ingmar Bergman of 10mR Itaka, the winning yacht in 2010

Ingmar Bergman and 10mR Itaka crew winners of the 2010 Cup

The Baltic Classic Master Cup trophy is over hundred years old and was set up in 2010 by GL Watson,
the world’s oldest yacht design studio, as a tribute to Scandinavian
yacht designers and active classic yachtsmen.

The launch of the Baltic Classic Master Cup has rejuvenated the Baltic
classic racing tradition. The first winner of the cup in 2010 was Ingmar
Bergman who raced Itaka, a 10mR. Vadim Manukhin won the cup in 2011
with L6 Nika and Nils Forsfält on 95 sq m La Morena took the cup back
to Sweden in 2012, Russian L6 Onega won in 2013, the 8mR Luna from
Finland won in 2014 and in 2015 the Widstrand family took home the cup
to Sweden again in 55 sq m gaff rigged Miranda. In 2016 the Cup was won by Jan and Max Nystedt of Sweden with the 30 sq m Pani